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High Noon Urchins

Today’s theme: How embarrassing… Sarah  Laura  Super Happy Fun Time Deluxe Recorder  Rory  Margaret  Anonymous Angeleno  Geo  Next week’s theme: Growing Pains Let us know where you’ll be at high noon!

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Made in Detroit

The following is an excerpt from Paul Clemens’s wonderful new book Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. Here he attends a parts auction, as equipment from the now-closed ThyssenKrupp Budd plant is sold to other plants around … Continue reading

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People We Met on the Way, Part Two

By Louisa Dunnigan [Louisa continues her journey to Morocco. Read the first half of her trip here!] Dorel Service station on the A4 – Another service station further down the A4 Dorel is driving a huge white truck with rainbows … Continue reading

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People We Met on the Way, Part One

By Louisa Dunnigan [The Guest Urchin series continues on as strongly as it started. Louisa Dunnigan is from London, attends Oxford, and has been living in Edinburgh for the summer. I met Louisa while working at the same bookshoppe in … Continue reading

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Congratulations, America

You win. Happy 4th of July weekend, everyone.

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How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep Like an Urchin in London

By Geo Ong If you’re an American lucky enough to travel to London in the near future, good for you. Just don’t tell us. We may resent you forever. Unless you’re offering to take us with you. But chances are … Continue reading

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Adverts Think You’re Stupid – Don’t Prove Their Point

By Geo Ong Despite my cuffed skinny jeans, asymmetrical haircut, and wiry vegan body, I don’t hate sport. Well, I don’t hate all sport. I can challenge a lot of people for the title of Diehard NBA Fan, believe it … Continue reading

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The Urchin Survival Guide, Part One

By Margaret Hedderman An urchin is a complex creature of the phylum book-annelida. Upon initial observation, an urchin may appear ill adapted to their environment: elitist, highbrowed, snobbish, eggheaded, sentimental, fluffy, or even… ‘smart.’  Gasp! Regardless of whether the above are … Continue reading

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